James Bolton McMillan Irving Updated: 16 MAY 2021
Airman: a060004.htm
Surname: Irving Init: JBM Rank: Sgt Service: RAF
Sqdn: 102
P_link: p159.htm Plane: HAL HR712 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Slipshavn, Storebælt
Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c060.htm At_Next: Nyborg
Den 21. april 1943 på hjemturen fra
et bombetogt mod Stettin
styrtede HAL HR712 ramt af flak
ned nær Slipshavn, omkring
her.
(Kilde: Lost Bombers)
Den 3. maj fandt inspektionsskibet "Absalon"
ligene af 3 flyvere i vraget ca. 1550 m fra Slipshavn.
Det var F. W. Day, G. H. Bartman og J. B. M Irving, der blev begravet i
Nyborg.
Der er ingen oplysninger om hvornår og hvordan flyverne fra
HAL HR712 blev
begravet. (Kilde: FAF)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) James Bolton McMillan
Irving, 22 år, var søn af Henry og Emily Irving,
Stranraer, Wigtownshire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Se
Halifax Print og
folk bag en Halifax klar til en
mission. Se Stettin +
Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.
7 flyvere.
On 21 April 1943 on the return flight
from a bombing raid on Stettin
HAL HR712 crashed, hit by
flak, near Slipshavn, about
here. (Source:
Lost Bombers)
On 3 May the ship "Absalon" found the bodies of 3
airmen in the wreck about 1550 m from Slipshavn.
F. W. Day, G. H. Bartman and J. B. M Irving were buried in Nyborg New
Cemetery.
There is no information about how and when the airmen from
HAL HR712 were buried. (Source: FAF)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) James Bolton McMillan
Irving, 22, was the son of Henry and Emily Irving,
of Stranraer, Wigtownshire, United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 187.
See
No. 102 Squadron - Wikipedia * Stettin +
Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.
Halifax II HR712 DY-
took off from
RAF Pocklington
at 21.34 hrs on 20 FEB 1943.
(Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.)
See
Pocklington History.
Halifax-RAF
Museum
*
Halifax-The
Yorkshire Air Museum.
See Halifax Print and
Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
7 airmen.